where is Brisbanes cheapest bait?

[rysa]

Just wanted to ask if there is a quality cheap bait shop in or around Brisbane? Be it blocks of squid IQF pillys, or what ever..
Cheers ;)

[neilspeil]

always found the tackle shop 1754 gympie road carseldine do alright. always a good place to stop on the way to redcliffe or the pine river.

[land_based]

Yep carseldine tackle shop is good, and good quality too, I guess in most cases it is you get what you pay for.

[ShaneJ]

Morgans Wholesale ;) 5kg Boxes of green Tigar prawns @ $15 a kilo, 10kg box of mullet tubes at 60cents a kilo. Dont know how much for squid.

[Freeeedom]

In the water - prawns from a cast net, worms from the beach, yabbies from the foreshores, herring on a bait jig, poddy mullet on bread and garfish from the dams. Catching fresh bait is almost as much fun as using it to catch bigger things, and it's a great way to teach kids the basics of fishing. I keep a freezer full of bait I've caught myself and very rarely buy any bait at all.
Cheers Freeeedom

[rysa]

Thanks people, if only I had time to go and catch my bait, I have to force time to wet a line as it is... but I'm hearin ya freeeedom

[ShaneJ]

Where do you get yabbies and worms around here Freeeedom?

[chanquetas]

Morgans Wholesale ;) 10kg box of mullet tubes at 60cents a kilo.

Mullet tubes? Call me old fashioned but I havent heard of them. :)

[ShaneJ]

Gutted half mullet! They call em mullet tubes :-?

[chanquetas]

Gutted half mullet! They call em mullet tubes :-?
OK. Thanks Shane.
Learn somethin everyday. :)

[Poodroo]

I am a soft plastics convert. No more smelly bait for me. lol

Poodroo

[Freeeedom]

Where do you get yabbies and worms around here Freeeedom?

I pump my yabbies at Bribie and always bring the leftovers home and freeze them. Ditto for worms - cure the beach worms and freeze also. If you want local worms the 'rock wrigglers' (as they are called) can be dug at low tide along the front of the Redcliffe peninsula with a garden fork in any of the rocky areas, like Woody Point around to Scotts point or the Scarborough reefs. It's back breaking work since you're digging in wet clay but there are plenty of worms there for the fit. The true wriggler worm lives in the sand of the Redcliffe beaches and is dug with a multi-tined fork, using the fork to sieve the sand along the high tide line. Wrigglers are regarded as the best summer whiting bait of all.
Cheers Freeeedom

[rysa]

thanks fellas,,

[Seahorse]

try highway bait. they dont open when they say they will, cost me nothing. ;D

[big_steve001]

the fish markets just out of capalaba near leisure marine has exellent bait and fairly cheap as well. never shop anywhere else. cheers steve

[tazza_505]

I was on the bribie jetty using some fresh(alive) yabbies and some frozen ones at the same time... the score was fresh: 18 bream + 1 flattie to frozen: 2 bream. From these results its obvious that the fesh yabbies are better. that being said if u were stuck frozen yabbies could be used.
thanks

[shano]

i find the seafood shop at garden city is by far the cheapest they sell pillies,squid,prawns all bulk for cheap! or in lessor forms!